Guide mounting



A. R. BENSON GUIDE MOUNTING April 16, 1940.

Filed Oct. 25, 1939 3mm AR THUR RBENSON Patented Apr. 16, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT oer-Ice.

GUIDE MOUNTING Arthur R. Benson, Berlin, Gonn., assignor to I The W. W. Mildrum Jewel Company, East Berlin, 001111., a corporation of Connecticut Application October 25, 1939, Serial No. 301,177

Claims. The present invention relates to fishing rodmountings and more particularly to an intermediate guide which is forced onto the'rod until it frictionally engages same and then secured in 5 its frictionally engaged position with suitable solder.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved guide mounting of the aboveindicated type, which is of considerably greater strength than mountings of similar type which have heretofore been manufactured; the additional strength eliminating the tendencyof the guide to collapse or becomedistorted when it is forced onto a rod.

A still further object is an improved guide mounting of relatively simple construction, utilizing a minimum number of parts, thus enabling economical manufacture thereof, though obtaining advantages not heretofore found in mountings of like type and intended for the same purpose.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out more in detail hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the fea- 2 tures of coristructiomcombination of elements, and

Fig. 3 is a view of the cradle as initially stamped from suitable sheet metal; and

, Fig. 4 is a view of Fig. 3 bent into cradle form. Referring to the drawing, the invention comprises generally a metal cradle A having secured therein a line guide B; the guide illustrated com-- prising a metallic outer ring C encompassing and holding an inner stone ring D; it being understood, however, that the guide might be a onepiece solid ring of suitable hard material. I

In the particular embodiment illustrated, the

cradle A is a one-piece structure stamped from a piece of metal into the form shown in Fig. 3; the metal having sufiicient resiliency to be bent and shaped to the form indicated in Fig. 4 to provide transversely spaced apart frame members l0 and I2 for supporting the ringC and longitudinally spaced apart expansion clamps l4 and 16 depending from and interconnecting the frame members and adapted to receive a fishing rod E to position and thereon.

The frame members l0 and I2 each comprise .secure' the I mounting a lower cross bar l8 substantially three times the a width of the ring Cand a pair. of arms or braces 23 and 22 extending upwardly from'and at an acute angle tothe extremities of each of the cross bars, with their upper ends intersecting and joined together to definean isosceles triangle with the lower cross bar and provide an upper ring.

contact 24 spaced away from but in alignment with the center of the cross bar l8. As previously indicated, the frames" l0 and [2 are interconnected by the rod clamps HI and I6, and each clamp includes an open top loop portion 26 connected to the outer extremities of the cross bars l8 by depending spacing portions 28.

With the cradle so constructed, the complete mounting may be manufactured in either of two ways, depending upon whether or not it is to be used on expensive rods, wherein the diameter of the rod is substantially true, or on cheap rods, where considerable variation in diameter may occur. When manufactured for use with expensive rods, the. cradle will be securedto the ring C with the lower cross bars secured thereto in the third and fourth quadrants thereof and equally distant to each side. of the vertical diam eter through the ring, and the upper frame contactsI24 securedin the first and fourth quadrantsequally distant slightly above a horizontal diameter through the ring; the angle between each upper and lower contact of each frame 1 member being approximately seventy-five degrees, thus s'pacing'the contacts at widely separated intervals. ,Moreover, due to the length of the cross bars l8; the rod clamps i4 and It will be spaced considerablyto either side of the ring C, and the spacing portions 28 securing the loops 26 to the cross bar'are of such length that when the rod is inserted into the clamping rings it is spaced slightly away from the ring C.

With this construction, if there is any slight variation in the rod the clamps 26 may expand without transferring the strain on the metal to the contacting points, and thus no distortion or collapsing occurs as the cradle is being forced onto the rod. Moreover, as the clamping rings .14 and IG- are spaced apart a considerable distancejthe cradle will have a double support on the rod, the'cross bars I8 will be substantially parallel to the rod and the ring C will be braced over a considerable distance.

Although the'ring C may be secured to the cradle A by hardsolder, an added advantage when the four-point contact is utilized is that the ring may be integrally secured by the use of soft solder applications 30, and substantially greater strength is obtained than'in a mounting wherein only the two upper contacts are utilized and the ring secured thereto with hard solder. Moreover, the use of softsolder eleminates the necessity for subsequent pickling and buffing, thus reducing the cost of manufacture.

When the mounting is to be used for cheaper rods where excessive spreading is apt to occur because of the fact that the rods are not true, the lower cross bars I8 will not be soldered to the ring, thus permitting excessive expansion of the loops 26, while still maintaining the additional strength secured by the utilization of the elongated cross bars and braces extending therefrom, whereby the bracing of the ring will be such that no collapsing or distortion will occur.

Preferably, the cradle frame members are of substantial width and have considerable surface contact with the ring B, making it possible to use extremely thin layers of solder, though obtaining extremely strong joints because of the large contacting areas.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim as my invention:

1. A fishing rod mounting including a ring, a cradle supporting said ring, saidj cradle including transversely spaced apart frame members, each frame member having upper and lower ring engaging contacts secured to said ring, said lower contact being substantially wider than the width of the ring, and rod receiving loops depending from and interconnecting the ends of said lower contacts, said loops being open adjacent the ring whereby same may expand upon insertion of a rod therein.

2. A fishing rod mounting including a metal ring, a cradle supporting said ring and including transversely spaced apart frame members, each frame member including a lower cross bar, and side braces extending upwardly and at an acute angle from the ends of said cross bar and intersecting at their upper ends to provide a ring contact, the outer ends of said cross bar being interconnected by depending loops adapted to receive a rod therein.

3. A fishing rod mounting including a ring,

. a one-piece metal cradle for receiving the ring,

said cradle including a pair of transversely spaced frame members, the bottom of each frame member being secured to the ring in the second and third quadrants an equal distance to either side of the vertical diameter through the ring, and the top of the frame member being secured to the ring at a point above said bottom member, the bottoms of said frame members being of substantially greater width than the metal ring and having their ends interconnected by depending open top loop defining a bore parallel to the bore of the ring.

4. A fishing rod mounting including a ring, a one-piece cradle member for receiving the ring and including spaced apart cross bars of substantially greater width than the ring and se-- cured thereto at an equal angle to either side of the lowermost point thereof, a pair of braces extending upwardly and inwardly from each cross bar and having their upper ends secured to said ring .at a point above said cross bar, the outer ends of said cross bars being interconnected by depending spaced apart, open top loop members adapted to, receive a fishing rod.

5. A fishing rod mounting comprising a onepiece metal member having frame members interconnected by depending loop members, said frame members comprising elongated bottom cross bars, and braces extending upwardly and inwardly from each cross bar and having their upper ends intersecting at a point spaced from but in a line with the center of the cross bar, said loop members depending from and interconnecting the outer ends of said cross bars.

ARTHUR R. BENSON. 

